Nevada County picayune., 1887-06-08
THE SOUTH ABUSED.
Sherman Waves the Bloody
 Shirt" at Springfield, lIl.
Below we give some extracts from Sherman's speech, delivered before the Legi stature of Illinois, at Sprin notield. last Wednesday,:


 sLet us pause at the end of the war and i'm agine with what feeling these returning sol diers would have received the prophecy that within twenty years, the same elements ol hostility to the Union cause. the same alli- ance between tho Confcderates and their sympathizors would be in possession of the Presidential office and in substantial control of the Government; that the slaves, though nominally free, were deprived, by unlawful means, of all political power and their mum bers counted to swell the political power oi their former owners. Who could believe that such could be the result. And what Il mockery of justice; what reproach to our patriotism; what shame to our loyal peo- pie that it is so." What language can express the cruel and barba- rous atrocity of the controlling elements of the South in thelr treatment of Republicans, both black and white, and especially of the freedmen who had been invested by conStitu- ;ional amendments with liberty and political rights. Taking advantage of the dciection of Andrew Johnson and reconstruction pol icy they commenced with laws that denied the freedmen liberty of speech and of the press, and even the personal freedom and protection allowed by the laws of :he most despotic powers in Europe to the meanest serl. followed by wholesale assassination of uuarmed and ndiscplined negroes inflicted l,. Ip,
 using all the agencies of terror and supersti- ton that could effect the mind of an igno- rant and credulous people with sach success that in ten years after the war the freedmen ever their vote would change the result; they could hold nu office, and might be cheated and robbed and murdered with impunity." And, fclow-citizens, tlns is not a thing of the past. It k continuing fact. IL is a fact t.-day. There is not an in- tcligrnt man in this broad land of eitherp par ty who doe, not know that Mir, Cleveland i> now President of The | nitcd Sutc, by virtue of crimes against the elective fauchiSe, in- cluding murder, arson. balot-boN >lutling. forgery and perjury, but for which James G Blaine would now be in his place. There has not been moment since the adoption of the fifteenth amendment when, if there could have been fair election for President, a majority "f the constitutional voters of at least five of the Southern States would not have voted for the Republican nominee"
 The above is only small part of ihe outrageous and abusive Ian. guage used by Senator Sherman his scandalouS speech took up six or seven columns of the Globe Democrat of the 2nd Sherman is now the most prominent candi- date for the Presidency. in the
 Republican party, and will likely get the nomination next year, hence his words have more than
 usual weight. II was his brother. Gen. Sherman, who went through
 the Sonth, pillagiug and burning, in hls march 10 the sea, about the close of the war. And like for.
 mer candidates tor the Presidency in the Republican party, he waves aluit the ''hloody shirt" and abus- es in strongest language the Sluih. What true Sonthern heart will mol resent to the ntterm0st, the falsrloods uttered by him. 1t